{"product_id":"visceral-prostheses-margrit-shildrick-9781350176492","title":"Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment","description":"In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very notion of what counts as human, Margrit Shildrick proposes new understandings of the limits and possible extensions of posthuman embodiment. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFocusing on prostheses, Shildrick broadens our understanding of both what prostheses are and what they might mean for human embodiment. As well as rehabilitation devices used by disabled people to replace or augment impaired parts of the body, Shildrick introduces visceral organic prostheses, which involve any cellular material that cannot be identified with the self, from organ transplantation to the physiological processes of microchimerism and the microbiome. Beyond origin narratives that concentrate on 'host' and 'guest' and 'self' and 'other', she examines the transformative possibilities that prostheses offer as they extend the nature of the embodied self beyond genetic singularity. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBuilding on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in critical disability studies, transplantation studies, and bioscience, \u003ci\u003eVisceral Prostheses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eargues that bodies with prostheses in whatever form should no longer be understood as irregular forms of normative embodiment, but as limit cases of a common experience. In doing so, it challenges the western understanding of the singular self and welcomes a new understanding of the human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margrit Shildrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350176494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350176492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Margrit Shildrick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44064355844351,"sku":"9781350176492","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8d5b45d-33f4-41e6-ac95-2c73ccb99cfb.jpg?v=1685394994","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/visceral-prostheses-margrit-shildrick-9781350176492","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}